Lee and Johns tweet it up
Its no secret that newly installed DC Co-publisher Jim Lee and Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns are two of the more charismatic and popular comics creators out there, and there is every reason to believe they will continue to be charismatic comics creators-turned-executives. Sean T. Collins has a roundup of Johns’ “charm offensive” twitter [...]
Continue ReadingUrgent to DC Entertainment
Can you please get these men new headshots so we can get a definitive facial hair statement? Esp. Pat Caldon, since he has managed to live a life free of internet presence.
Continue ReadingYour New DC FAQ
It was a busy day for DC Entertainment’s new executive team, and they were made available to many press outlets. Although a few key themes emerged (digital, digital, digital) various questions were asked in various places. Here are, perhaps some of the ones on everyone’s mind. So now, how is this all going to work? Jim Lee: [...]
Continue ReadingA brief interview with Diane Nelson
On an busy day for DC Entertainment, president Diane Nelson has been making the press rounds, and she very graciously stopped by to answer a few questions for The Beat on today’s management announcements and her first five months at DC. Q: You’ve been running DC for about five months. As a self-confessed relative outsider to [...]
Continue ReadingNew game in town: Who will be new DCU Executive Editor?
The interviews with DC’s new executive team are trickling out, and first in our inbox is a Vaneta Rogers chat with everyone except Caldon. A key takeaway: The DCU is looking for a new head. DiDio’s former position of executive editor has yet to be filled, although he said all editorial positions are currently being examined [...]
Continue ReadingChains of command unfolding at DC; Bruning’s role downplayed
With the new five-headed management team being unveiled at DC, a big question is who reports where? Meetings with the new management team are ongoing today at the DC offices — the announcement was made at a 9 am meeting with Diane Nelson — and we’ve gotten word of a few key changes. Vertigo SVP/Executive editor [...]
Continue ReadingDC’s Diane Nelson statement
Also on the Source blog, Diane Nelson makes a statement that in addition to extolling the men chosen for the new exec team, answers a lot of the questions we’ve all been pondering for the last few months — in fact, they seem directly aimed at them: In terms of possible alternate candidates for the [...]
Continue ReadingDC Entertainment’s new executive team speaks
Via the Source blog, statements from DC’s new executive team: Dan DiDio and Jim Lee: With our respective experiences and history with DC and our relationships with the world’s best writers and artists, our mission is to reinvent DC Comics to prepare it for the challenges and opportunities in this quickly changing world. With the Co-Publisher structure, [...]
Continue ReadingBarbara Marcus in the running for DC Publisher job?
UPDATE: Well Nikki Finke says there is no truth to this. So that’s that. Like Bleeding Cool, we’ve been hearing the name of former Scholastic Publisher Barbara Marcus as a contender for the job of DC publisher. While the chatter we’ve heard is that it’s not a done deal, her name is, nonetheless, the first remotely [...]
Continue ReadingSo what’s going on at DC Entertainment, anyway?
If there’s one topic occupying the water coolers and drink-ups of the comics industry these days, it’s “Just what the heck is going on at DC ComicsEntertainment? Where is the new publisher?” After investigating and talking to our most trusted sources, we’ve been able to come up with a fairly definitive answer: NOBODY KNOWS. Or [...]
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